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> The only one who is confused here is you. You're trying to make it sound like this is somehow a big issue or a dealbreaker, when in fact pretty much no one who does actual work with these programs cares

Seriously? You don't feel it's ridiculous to say this when just above I posted links to people begging for this feature on the forums since at least 2017?

> You can hate on one application or another

I'm not hating on it - if I hated Affinity I wouldn't even be wasting my time to point it out. I love Affinity and want it to succeed, hence all this.

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A loud minority requesting a feature doesn't mean it's a deal-breaker for other users. Clearly the company behind the product agrees, otherwise they would've implemented it.

> A loud minority requesting a feature

First, thanks for acknowledging that it's not "just me". That kind of nonsensical hyperbole doesn't help the discussion.

Second: You have no idea if it's a minority of the market that actually wants this. The majority of users obviously use Adobe, that should tell you more than how many people are voicing their opinions in a forum. Not every user goes out of their way to re-request a feature that's already been requested years ago.

> doesn't mean it's a deal-breaker for other users.

Nobody said it's a deal breaker for "other users".

> Clearly the company behind the product agrees, otherwise they would've implemented it.

Because there's no other possible reason we could fathom as to why they wouldn't have implemented this already, right?

This is such a silly stance to take. Just because something is important or painful for you doesn't make it universal, no matter which way you try to frame it. Just like you won't see the users who don't rerequest a feature, you won't see all the users who don't even remotely care about it.

> Just because something is important or painful for you doesn't make it universal,

Again: nobody said it was "universal", but again: it's not about me, either. It's ridiculous that you're still insisting it's just me when you literally see other people complaining about it. You clearly aren't interested in having a reasonable conversation so there's no point in continuing to engage.

I think some clarity that has been missing to your point is that this isn't an issue that Affinity can't edit raw photos, but more that if you switched from Lightroom to Affinity you're going to be missing all your edits for all your photos, which makes it a non-starter for anyone who doesn't want to or can't redit all of their RAW files.

Yup, thanks. Hope that clarifies it for anyone who was confused by that.

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